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Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Your child will create their very own traditional Indian Toran wall hanging using construction paper, yarn and paint.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!